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Syrians today face an unprecedented hunger crisis as the prices of basic foods reach levels unseen even at the height of the nine-year conflict and millions of people are pushed deeper into poverty the United Nations World Food Programme says, on the eve of a donors pledging conference for Syria.
The Government of Algeria and international donors have shown consistent solidarity with Sahrawi refugees through humanitarian support over more than four decades, support that has been of vital importance, and must be recognized.
Regrettably, pressed by global challenges, this support is now insufficient to meet current needs.
WFP has completed its first round of food distributions to people impacted by the spread of conflict into Afar and Amhara regions. However, a lack of supplies due to various impediments to the movement of humanitarian aid still sees distributions in Tigray lagging behind.
More than half of the population are facing acute hunger and 3.2 million children are suffering from malnutrition. Humanitarian needs have tripled, and will continue to rise as the bitter winter sets in pushing communities to the limit.
As of Wednesday morning, WFP had reached nearly 64,000 people in urgent need of food assistance, providing ready-to-eat food rations, family food packages and hot meals.
This decentralized evaluation was commissioned by the WFP Nepal Country Office and covers the End-line Evaluation of USDA McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Programme Fiscal Year 2017 [2017-2022].
As political upheaval shakes Niger, sustaining short and long-term responses to the worsening hunger crisis in the country is critical.
WFP’s emergency assistance needs to reach people at the moment they need it and at the appropriate scale.
Excellencies, the World Food Programme, and other humanitarian agencies, have been warning for months now of a widespread collapse in food security across the country.
We have been clear that famine is a real and dangerous possibility: caused by the raging conflict, widespread displacement, and above all the denial of humanitarian access by the warring parties.
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